Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-14
A GOOD OPENING.
springfield Offers a Zine Field for q
RailrOnd-The situation Well Pat by
q Springfield Man

springfield Offers a Fine Field for
RailrOad-The Situation Well Put 10y
aSpringfield MAN
Reuben Groat, of the firm OF Groat q
Snow bankers at Springfield, was IL
Yankton on private business last might
and to q news searcher he impaired some
information concerning the movement
which Springfield is making in behalf o!
improved ailway facilities. The reporter
asked him if railway business brought
him to Yankton and in reply he said:
"No, not particularly, but we Spring
field and Bon Homme county people
always have that subject under consider
alton, aud it is our intention to secure
to Springfield more railroads within q
year. The town of Springfield will give
$4,000 In money and the right OF way
through Bon Homme county to airy
corporation that will build a railway
from Yankton west to Springfield and
thence on through Bon Homme county.
The town of Bon Homme will probably
give $4,000 and the route through Yank-
ton county would be donated, l believe,
by the settlers along the way. We want
some company to send acorps. of survey
ors over the ground to make a careful
estimate of the cost and then we will
take such steps as are necessary Inward
securing the building of that road,
which we want built from Yankton. The
amount of business which could be- done
by any railroad which builds this line is
really surprising. just look at the
country which it would invade, not only
the extent of it but the fertility of the
soil and the productions of the same.
Every quarter section Of land between
Yankton and the Ysnkton Indian
reservation will furnish, within the next
two years, at least five carloads of pro-
duce, lumber or farm machinery for
some railroad company to haul, and she
business at the forts and Indian agencies
is in itself a great inducement. Why,
one man alone has taken q contract to
unload forty carloads of freight for the
Ssntee agency Indians and the Milwau-
kee company. hauls oil this aud gets its
own price tor it. Goal in Springfield
sells for So per ton than at Yank-
ton, and the dealers in our town sell
fully as much and possibly more than
any one in Yankton or Sioux City.
Springfeld's retail business has increased
one hall in the past two years and q hall,
owing to the rapidity with which the
surrounding country is being settled up.
To Yankton the building of the proposed
line means something more than another
railroad. All the merchandise which is
sold in south Bon Homme county is at
present sent from Sioux Clty or Obi
cage and to Yankton's loss. Our people
want to %patronizea Dakota town, but
the Milwaukee company will not give US
the rates from Yankton, which VI get
from Sioux City. All these
matters are to be considered"
Nj. Groot then spoke in an encouraging
manner of the normal school which has
been located at Springfield, saying that
a bill had been introduced in the iegis-
lature asking for an appropriation and
that it would probably pass both
houses. Twenty acres of land right in
the centre OF Springfield have been set
apart as the site for the school building
and grounds,